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By Rachel L. Sheedy, Managing Editor, Kiplinger's Retirement Report
For many Americans, Social Security benefits are the bedrock of retirement income. Yet future retirees could find themselves on shaky ground. The Social Security Bo...

A new study finds that you can persuade retirees to delay taking Social Security benefits simply by changing the way you frame the decision.
More than half of U.S. retirees rely on Social Security retirement benefits for the bulk of...

One of the arguments against reducing Social Security benefits, and in favor of expanding them, is that Americans rely heavily on Social Security to support themselves in retirement. It’s one thing if low earners rely on Social Secu...

By far the single most common contributing program to a retiree's household income is Social Security. And the lower a person's retirement income, the bigger role Social Security plays. For Americans with household retirement income...

Retirees have become increasingly dependent on Social Security for the bulk of their retirement income. Yet even though most retirees have few other sources of income and rely on their retirement savings to supplement Social Securit...